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About Archer: That red-clad Archer and I share a deep connection. To have him on our side this time is a stroke of luck for both of us.

About Saber: She's an old acquaintance of mine. The fact that you've summoned her as your Servant tells me you're a person of integrity. Don't doubt yourself, stay the course, and keep pushing ahead.

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I hate to go through this all over again. Last night, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, but some creators were banned without warning, and any funds they have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide!

Info compiled by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find their contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

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this is frying me so bad

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Statement on the shadowbanning and removal of adult content on Itch.io

(View a mirror of this post on our website here.)

Hello, papaya here.

A few hours prior to this statement’s release, the only storefront we currently share our games and bonus content on, Itch.io, suddenly and abruptly began to shadowban and even outright remove uploads tagged with “adult” and “erotic” on the site. As of right now, the versions of our side story collections with R-18 content are still available, but shadowbanned.

First thing’s first: we are preparing for our uploads to get hit. If you have purchased one of our R-18 collections and have discovered that you are no longer allowed to download your purchase, contact us immediately through support@milkplus.moe with proof of purchase and we will give you a far more permanent copy of your purchase in an attachment. If you have been wanting to purchase any of our R-18 content, we encourage you to not purchase through Itch, but Patreon, as Patreon will still allow us to pay out even in the event of our R-18 posts getting taken down. And if you’d like to maintain far more consistent access at the cost of single-purchase convenience, please subscribe to us through Subscribestar, a creator support platform that focuses primarily on adult content (meaning the risk of things getting taken down is lower).

The second thing we’d like to address is the future of POLYCHROMANIA. As has been known since its initial announcement, POLYCHROMANIA is slated to be an adult title with violent content, with these aspects tying into its overall themes. While its development is still paused to make way for 7388, and we cannot possibly know what the Internet landscape will look like by the time its turn comes around, we must unfortunately consider the possibility of having to heavily modify its contents in order to be able to publish it and actually turn a profit. We plan on reaching out to publishers experienced with releasing adult content when it’s time for POLYCHROMANIA’s development to restart and will defer to their advice first before taking such extreme action. I wish to do everything I can to keep POLYCHROMANIA as untouched by censorship as possible. The world is cold and colorless without a place for the hurt to vent.

If you have had enough of Visa and Mastercard’s attacks on adult content, if you want to stop this from escalating to queer content as a whole, there are still ways to fight back, even if you’re a consumer.

If you are American, there is an ACLU petition that has been around for a while and is now getting much more traction. You can sign that petition here.

If Visa and Mastercard operate in your country, you can directly call their phone lines and make emails. This is part of what the groups trying to remove adult content have been doing to pressure them. Let’s do it in reverse. A list of numbers for Mastercard is here and a list for Visa is here.

Above all else, support people whose livelihoods are in danger. As we do not primarily focus on adult content, we are nowhere near as at-risk as other creators. If you see a NSFW creator struggling in the wake of this tragedy, see if you can send them some money their way.

Thank you for reading.

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average aging Tumblr adult active here since 2014 when they scroll past werewolf boyfriend posts in the year of our lord 2024

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Super important compilation of the girls looking completely unhinged.

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Demon Hunters through generations 🎶 K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

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zoeystery and whatever the hell they're having

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best part of KPop Demon Hunters is all the ridiculous faces the girls make

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"mirror mirror on my phone, who's the baddest?

✨ us, hello? ✨"

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kpop demon hunters as anime 🎶✨

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sword bf 💜⚔️

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shout out to victims who'd tear your throat out if you referred to them as such fr gotta be one of my favourite genders

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Utahime x Kwon Eunbi Waterbomb